Blanchester Middle School

As a close-knit 6-8 campus in Blanchester, Ohio, Blanchester Middle School enrolls 353 students from grades 5 through 8, part of Blanchester Local. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 482 students each, so Blanchester Middle School sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Blanchester Local, which oversees 3 schools and 1,156 students, Blanchester Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Blanchester Middle School shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Clinton County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Blanchester Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 54% of students at Blanchester Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Clinton County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Blanchester Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.6%.

Around the school, census data for Clinton County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,407 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Clinton County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,856 students), Blanchester Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Blanchester High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Blanchester Middle School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 70.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Blanchester Middle School's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 393 (now 353).

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